For ten years, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ekpar Asat has been unjustly imprisoned in #China because he is a #Uyghur. No one should suffer like this. Send a message urging the director for prisons in #Xinjiang to release Ekpar immediately www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

A threat to wipe out "a whole civilization" may amount to a threat of genocide. All parties should respect international law, and those responsible for atrocities should be held accountable. New statement from HRW and 200+ groups, experts:

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 18 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years in prison. Please join me & urge #UAE to #FreeAhmed

For ten years, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ekpar Asat has been unjustly imprisoned in #China because he is a #Uyghur. No one should suffer like this. Send a message urging the director for prisons in #Xinjiang to release Ekpar immediately www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Kazakhstan’s authorities have filed criminal charges against Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a feminist activist. The charges follow an investigation into Sekerbayeva, which appears to have been in retaliation for her LGBT activism.

On Saturday, 17 peace activists in Israel were arrested during an anti-war protest against the wars in Iran and Lebanon. The reason given was the threat of Iranian missiles.

When anti-Rohingya sentiment turned into gunshots in Myanmar in 2017, 16-year-old Maung Sawyeddollah was forced to flee. What happens when you’re forced to leave your home? Where do you go? 🎙️In EP2 of The Great Unrooting, we hear from people around the world who have faced these questions.

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 17 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years in prison. Please join me & urge #UAE to #FreeAhmed

#UAE: Ahmed Mansoor’s 15-Year Sentence Upheld. After #AhmedMansoor was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017, he was sentenced in 2024 to another 15 years. #FreeAhmed via @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

The United States’ latest strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, which reportedly killed four people, highlights a sustained pattern of unlawful use of lethal force outside any context of armed conflict, amounting to extrajudicial executions. Read more:

This ⬇️ 🔗 www.politico.com/news/magazin...

NEW: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is conducting a campaign to recruit children as young as 12 to volunteer to become “homeland defending combatants.” The military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when the children are under 15.

#Egypt has detained Oqba unjustly for more than 5 years. Please help free him. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Our next @brightonamnesty.bsky.social meeting is via on Zoom at 7:30 on Thursday 2nd April Our speaker is Duaa Abdulal who is Chair of the AIUK Anti-Racism Network Committee. All with an interest in #HumanRights welcome. email [email protected] for more details.

Our next @brightonamnesty.bsky.social meeting is via on Zoom at 7:30 on Thursday 2nd April Our speaker is Duaa Abdulal who is Chair of the AIUK Anti-Racism Network Committee. All with an interest in #HumanRights welcome. email [email protected] for more details.

#Egypt has detained Oqba unjustly for more than 5 years. Please help free him. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

On Trans Day of Visibility, we're celebrating Christine Goodwin & her historic victory at the European Court of Human Rights which led to the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Read about Christine's victory and what it meant for trans rights here👇🏽 amn.st/6003B6mBcS

#UAE: #AhmedMansoor spent 9 years 11 days in prison, a lot of time in solitary confinement. In 2018 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, in 2024 to another 15 years in prison. Please join me & urge #UAE to #FreeAhmed

In an open letter addressed to the Home Secretary, our One Strong Voice network describe how more frequent reviews of refugee status push people back into fear and instability. Their message is clear: constant uncertainty makes recovery harder, not easier. Take action. 📢 https://ow.ly/tx9L50YBbhP

Rights groups condemn Israel's new law, which will primarily apply to Palestinians, as discriminatory.

The Israeli Knesset has passed a discriminatory bill expanding use of the death penalty. Combined with its severe restrictions on appeals and its 90-day execution timeline, this bill aims to kill Palestinian detainees faster and with less scrutiny.

Transgender rights = human rights. In many countries around the world, the rights of trans people are under attack. This International Transgender Day of Visibility, we continue to work for a world where all people can enjoy their rights fully.

#Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic face collective expulsions and racial profiling and are routinely denied access to healthcare. Help @amnesty.org stop this. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

One year later, but the same wishes for freedom and justice for #AhmedMansoor #FreeAhmed

Please help @amnesty.org stop abusive militarised immigraton operations in the #USA andprotect #HumanRights www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Our next ever popular Brighton Amnesty quiz is on Tuesday 24 March at 7:30 in The Cow, 95-97 Dyke Road, BN1 3JE. All welcome - Teams of up to 6 - £3 per head All proceeds go to #HumanRights campaigning. email : [email protected] for more details

Please support this @hrw.org petition and help to persuade the world to #StopBombingCivilians www.hrw.org/StopBombingC...

Our next @brightonamnesty.bsky.social meeting is a virtual meeting via Zoom on Thursday 5th March at 7.30 pm. All with an interest in #HumanRights welcome. email [email protected] for entry details

The Guerreras por la Amazonía are fighting to protect their communities from gas flares which are causing toxic fumes and environmental degradation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Support them by signing this @amnesty.org petition . www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Billy Kearse will be executed in Florida on 3 March. He was convicted of killing a police officer shortly after his 18th birthday, after a childhood of poverty and abuse. He has intellectual disability, making his execution unconstitutional. Please help save him. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Billy Kearse will be executed in Florida on 3 March. He was convicted of killing a police officer shortly after his 18th birthday, after a childhood of poverty and abuse. He has intellectual disability, making his execution unconstitutional. Please help save him. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Around the world low paid garment workers are exploited and abused. Please help @amnesty.org protect them. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Gunmen attacked three villages in Nigeria’s Niger State, killing at least 46 people and abducting several others. The raids come amid a worsening security crisis involving Islamic State (IS) affiliated armed groups and criminal kidnapping gangs. 🔗: aje.news/cdf4qc | #Infograph

Around the world low paid garment workers are exploited and abused. Please help @amnesty.org protect them. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Humphrey Polepole was abducted in Dar es Salaam on 6 October 2025 by unidentified security forces. He is a government critic who has criticized President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling party. Demand the #Tanzanian authorities release him immediately. www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actio...

The international community must take action to protect protestors in #Iran www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Please help @amnesty.org shut down this abusive immigration detention centre in #Florida. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

The international community must take action to protect protestors in #Iran www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Please help @amnesty.org shut down this abusive immigration detention centre in #Florida. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Our next @brightonamnesty.bsky.social meeting is on the 8th January at 19:30 in the BMECP Centre, 10a Fleet Street, Brighton. We will be showing two short films. All with an interest in #HumanRights welcome. More details from [email protected]

Please help @amnestyuk.bsky.social free opposition activists unjustly imprisioned in #Tunisia. www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actio...

Please help @amnestyuk.bsky.social free two #Palestinian journalists unlawfully and forcibly disappeared by #Israeli forces. www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actio...

Please help @amnestyuk.bsky.social free two #Palestinian journalists unlawfully and forcibly disappeared by #Israeli forces. www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actio...

Our @brightonamnesty.bsky.social Write For Rights event is at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton on Saturday 6th December between 10 and 4. Please drop in and write a card or letter of support for someone suffering #HumanRights violations.

Protect the ancestral way of life of the Sámi people. www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

Great cause hope lots of people turn up to support it.

Our @brightonamnesty.bsky.social Write For Rights event is at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton on Saturday 6th December between 10 and 4. Please drop in and write a card or letter of support for someone suffering #HumanRights violations.

18-year-old Yuval Peleg is serving a 30-day sentence in a military prison for refusing to enlist in the #Israeli military over its involvement in the genocide in #Gaza and the unlawful occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Please help Amnesty free him. www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actio...

Defend UK membership of the European Convention Of Human Rights. Send your MP a letter via @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/defe...

Ammunition from #Bulgaria, equipment from #France appeared in #RSF hands in #Darfur #Sudan via #UnitedArabEmirates. But @eudiplomacy.bsky.social silence on UAE's role allows impunity. Time for EU to step up response to UN embargo violations. www.politico.eu/article/suda... @laukaya.bsky.social